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 Bi'ios wrote:
Bought a used copy of Chrono Trigger for my SNES a while back. Always loved that game, and lost my copy many many moons ago.

Was shocked that New Game+ was not activated. It doesn't deactivate even if you delete all the saved games.

I know it's not tabletop gaming, but it was a game, and it was weird.

I honsetly have no idea what any of this means. I am getting old.

 ncshooter426 wrote:
Bought a bunch of 40K stuff off craigslist, dimebag was in the bottom of the shoebox.

Now that is how you build customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Non-tabletop but when I bought a secondhand PSP it came with a memory card which was completely full of porn.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 ncshooter426 wrote:
Bought a bunch of 40K stuff off craigslist, dimebag was in the bottom of the shoebox.

Now that is how you build customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Non-tabletop but when I bought a secondhand PSP it came with a memory card which was completely full of porn.

Hey, you got bang for your buck.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 ncshooter426 wrote:
Bought a bunch of 40K stuff off craigslist, dimebag was in the bottom of the shoebox.

Now that is how you build customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Non-tabletop but when I bought a secondhand PSP it came with a memory card which was completely full of porn.

Hey, you got bang for your buck.

But I needed that space for Crisis Core and Peace Walker saves

Friend bought a Settlers of Catan off craiglist and it had the tiles for two of the expansions in it - more of a lucky find

Purchased resin online and they sent me a box of Mike Ike's with it for some unknown promotion/company birthday I was unaware about.

 Easy E wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:
Bought a used copy of Chrono Trigger for my SNES a while back. Always loved that game, and lost my copy many many moons ago.

Was shocked that New Game+ was not activated. It doesn't deactivate even if you delete all the saved games.

I know it's not tabletop gaming, but it was a game, and it was weird.

I honsetly have no idea what any of this means. I am getting old.

Oddly, this is something younger people wouldn't normally understand. Some older cartridge games had on board memory to save your games between play sessions. Sometimes this memory also stored whether or not the game had been beaten. Some games, when beaten, would unlock a "New Game+" mode, which usually had some extra content.

It's unusual to find a used copy of a game like Chrono Trigger where the New Game+ mode hasn't been activated. It means someone bought it, played it, but never beat it.

A guy sold some old RPG books to the store I used to work at. They ended up containing a few homemade BDSM pictures of the guy.

I bought a very worn copy of Mentzer basic D&D that had a bunch of "dead" characters in it (HP crossed down to 0). A couple had actual holes in the paper and at least one had a few drops of what appeared to be dried blood. You'd have thought the party had been hacked, shot with arrows or burned by a fireball due to the state of the various sheets.

On a positive side I recently bought a copy of the Chill game for $5, to find the base boxed set packed with just about every supplement I could want for the game - probably well over a $100 worth of extras packed into the set.

This is slightly off-topic, but on a train from Hamburg to Denmark, I found the laminated identification card of a Russian agent, could have been SVR RF, which is one of the successors of KGB. It was folded a couple of times and pressed down between the train seats. I suspect the agent had tried to get rid of the card without getting out of his seat. Also this train linked two countries, crossing a border, so that might have had something to do with it.

I brought the card with me home and showed it to a friend who's Russian, and he translated the text for me and told me to deliver the card to the Russian embassy (which I didn't do). I believe I've lost it since, I haven't seen it in ten years.

Skorne wrote:
I once bought a second hand 2nd hand Ultramarines codex and a Raymond E Feist book from a local book store.

At the time I was studying plant structures in Biology and pressing leaves using books. Coincidentally I found some leaves inside both books and brought them into my class.

Turned out it was Cannabis. Queue one awkward phonecall home to the parents . . . . . . .

I found half a dozen marijuana cigarettes in a Yaquinto Man, Myth, & Magic RPG once. Not supposed to be a used game, but the owners of the shop had a reputation of opening things. (They ended up being busted by the Feds - something to do with the big sign in their window announcing 'Yes! We Have Pirate and Bootleg VHS Tapes!'...)

The Auld Grump - The End of the Rainbow was the name of the shop.

 Kriswall wrote:

 Easy E wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:
Bought a used copy of Chrono Trigger for my SNES a while back. Always loved that game, and lost my copy many many moons ago.

Was shocked that New Game+ was not activated. It doesn't deactivate even if you delete all the saved games.

I know it's not tabletop gaming, but it was a game, and it was weird.

I honsetly have no idea what any of this means. I am getting old.

Oddly, this is something younger people wouldn't normally understand. Some older cartridge games had on board memory to save your games between play sessions. Sometimes this memory also stored whether or not the game had been beaten. Some games, when beaten, would unlock a "New Game+" mode, which usually had some extra content.

It's unusual to find a used copy of a game like Chrono Trigger where the New Game+ mode hasn't been activated. It means someone bought it, played it, but never beat it.

New Games have this also like for example Dark Souls/Bloodborne

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
New Games have this also like for example Dark Souls/Bloodborne

Not really the point he was making.

 Kriswall wrote:

 Easy E wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:
Bought a used copy of Chrono Trigger for my SNES a while back. Always loved that game, and lost my copy many many moons ago.

Was shocked that New Game+ was not activated. It doesn't deactivate even if you delete all the saved games.

I know it's not tabletop gaming, but it was a game, and it was weird.

I honsetly have no idea what any of this means. I am getting old.

Oddly, this is something younger people wouldn't normally understand. Some older cartridge games had on board memory to save your games between play sessions. Sometimes this memory also stored whether or not the game had been beaten. Some games, when beaten, would unlock a "New Game+" mode, which usually had some extra content.

It's unusual to find a used copy of a game like Chrono Trigger where the New Game+ mode hasn't been activated. It means someone bought it, played it, but never beat it.

Possible that the internal battery had become kaput and it wiped the new game+. I dont have a snes but I do have a mega drive, and have a few JRPGS that need their batteries replacing.



Best things I ever got were:

Brought the (at the time) newest skaven army book, as was advertise on ebay, but the women sent out the 7th edition one instead. Was really cross, as I had really wanted the 8th one to play. Complained, and she sent me out the 8th one, and told me to keep the 7th as it was her mistake. Which was excellent as the 7th has some excellent fluff/art in it. Both were a steal at a cheeky 99p bid!

Brought a chaos army for Epic, all bundled in a box- you could only see what was in to the top layer, and the box was shaped like a cereal box but smaller, was told it was full, and the chaos stuff was listed as one complete infantry box and nothing else, but the guy didn't want to unpack it all to photograph. Took a gamble on it- and as I emptied it out the chaos stuff fell out bit by bit (it was really jammed in this box) but it didn't stop coming out! (it was like clowns getting out a car!) There were several boxes worth of chaos jammed in this tiny box, as well as a couple of boxes of the old IG minis, and tons of odds n ends for epics.

Widest thing was as mentioned- human hair. Brought a few boxes of the old MB game that GW made minis for (battlemasters?) and one box was crammed full of minis, and the other box was a mixture of GW dice, heroquest cards and odds, bits for other other games, and several clumps of different coloured hair. Guy either lived with a hairdresser, or was a full blown serial killer!

Bought a space marine battleforce set , in it was a mobile phone, the phone was out of battery charged it, looked in photos lots of photos of previous owners naked boyfriend!
Left phone for 2 days and then it rang and it was a lady asking for phone back as the photos were for revenge porn!
I returned the phone but deleted the photos as that ain't nice.

I was more shocked she was happy to tell me what the photos were for

 reds8n wrote:
I bought a 2nd hand copy of Vampire : The Masq RPG years ago, and stuck it on the shelf for use as/when.

Picked it up 2 or 3 years later and whilst flicking through found a hand written letter from a woman writing to, it seemed, her husband/boyfriend explaining why she'd been unfaithful and didn't really love him anymore and hadn't for some time.

That was a weirdly voyeuristic and uncomfortable glimpse into the lives of people who one assumes I don't and never will know.

I actually burnt the letter , just in case really, having seen far too many farces revolving around misunderstood letters and the like.

mentioned this to another friend a few years after the fact and he gave me a bit of a funny look and asked me a few questions about it.. seemed to know some of the details without being asked.. he knew the people...

.. and had in fact been playing in the campaign that the letter had in fact been a prop for

I work in a library, and I was getting a requested book out of the Teens section a few months ago, when an actual love letter fell out. Given that the anonymous author had poured their heart out and the recipient had used it as a bookmark, it probably wasn't meant to be, so I binned it.

I bought a bunch of Ork models, and they came with a block of electronics (resembles a laptop cable), apparently it's for LEDs. Guess that makes some sense though. Also included was a frilly apron